Beta firmwares available (0.5.1.9) - Beta testers needed!

[mad_ady]

@jomjom79: Nothing is dead until the hardware dies. I plan on using my WDTV till the bitter end.

@KAD: Thanks, but recliq gave me rights yesterday and I will be able to post there when it's ready. Right now this firmware should not be posted there since it's targeted at beta testers first and foremost.

Also, recliq created new repos on the svn for me. @KAD: would you like to store your development on the svn as well?

[migube]

I think I will get my old good WDTV Live from under the dust &give it a try once
tx

[KAD]

[pennhaven]

I got back to this party a bit late, but am happy to learn of the work you're doing.

Testing 1.05.04 EXT3-BOOT Live version and seems good so far. GUI seems more responsive but that is only subjective. Initially after first boot yesterday I wasn't able to access the web end, but I tried again today and it works fine. All I did in the meantime was power off, power on, play a movie, and power off; so don't know what was up there.

Next will try out my UMSP plugins and see which if any don't work.

[mad_ady]

[pennhaven]

[pennhaven]

Possible Web End Bug

Today when I accessed the web end with the device in OFF state the device state and available disks windows would not load on the web end. The web end page loaded but the device state and available disks never displayed, and Firefox continued to show the loading icon (spinning arrow) on the browser tab. After several minutes with no change I powered the device ON and then after a minute or two the device state and available disks loaded to the web end.

Don't know if it is relevant, but I am connected to a NAS, and IIRC at one time in the past the web end would not load completely unless the NAS was awake. Then b-rad made a code change and this issue was corrected. This may be relevant, because I have WDLXTV configured for WOL to the NAS when powering up the WDTV Live. So my nas was not awake when the WDTV was OFF but then did wake soon after I powered up the WDTV, following which the device state and available disk windows loaded.

[mad_ady]

I tried to reproduce your issue, but I couldn't:



I also have shares mounted remotely (via NFS and Cifs-Interceptor). My NAS also goes to sleep (spin-down), but I didn't notice any slowness. Also, there were no relevant changes to the webend compared to 0.5.1.1, so, if you can, see if you can reproduce this issue multiple times. Also, an output of the "mount" and "df" commands while your NAS is sleeping might be helpful (it would be interesting if you notice slowness when running those commands and your NAS sleeps).

Thanks for reporting though.

[pennhaven]

[mad_ady]